This is no joke. I wish it was because it seems that Windows is not the only unsecured product that $MS dumps on the market. While was having a couple of drinks with friends on Friday, some random person/bot/thing signed onto my MSN account and proceeded to piss off most of my contact list.
Thanks to Mike Saltzwag for sending through this bizarre chat history:
Colin Daniels says:
Hello
mike says:
brb
mike says:
wasup
mike says:
sorry
mike says:
was just on the phone
Colin Daniels says:
Sorry, i just come, what is born?
mike says:
what?
mike says:
speaka da english, please
Colin Daniels says:
Sorry, i dont speak very well
mike says:
why not?
mike says:
are you not colin?
mike says:
hello?
mike says:
??
Colin Daniels says:
I want to known
mike says:
what?
mike says:
?
mike says:
?
Colin Daniels says:
I'm africano and you?
mike says:
hmmm
mike says:
are u pulling a sneaky
Colin Daniels says:
No, why
mike says:
why u talking shit
Colin Daniels says:
Thats true, i'm of mozambique, you know?
Colin Daniels says:
Wassup?
Colin Daniels says:
I have sent you a voice message! To hear it click on the link below:
http://media.am-im.net/m/?id=Kx7iQIcqq1
Sent from a mobile phone with AgileMessenger
mike says:
listen, who are you?
mike says:
why are you using this msn account?
Colin Daniels says:
I'm P.R. Dogg and you?
mike says:
i'm the pope
mike says:
what is your email address?
mike says:
hmm, hi?
mike says:
?
mike says:
u there?
1 Carls Feb 13th, 2007 at 5:27 pmhysterical! poor wag – he must have been super confused!
2 Stii Feb 13th, 2007 at 5:55 pmThat SUX! Wow! So I guess you won’t be upgrading to Vista then? :-D
3 elle Feb 14th, 2007 at 4:27 pmLOL LOL… OMG this convo is just not right… But super funny!
4 ewan Feb 14th, 2007 at 7:52 pmDon’t blame MS – the only way someone/thing else could use your account was if they/it knew your password, or could guess it – neither of which is MS or the softwares fault. Don’t shoot the messenger ;-)
5 Dominic White Feb 15th, 2007 at 8:08 amThere’s a good chance they managed to do that with a piece of malware [1], you should give your machine a good scan with AV. If you find anything I highly recommend backing up your stuff, scanning it with AV and reinstalling, as it is the only sure way to restore your machine to a trusted base, since most malware now downloads a slew of other malware.
Also, Mac’s get virii, don’t believe they ads.
[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2.....d_stealer/
6 Colin Daniels Feb 15th, 2007 at 12:27 pmStii – vista is a virus!!!
Dom – thanks I’ll give that a try…
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7 Michael Salzwedel (saltzwag) Feb 15th, 2007 at 3:16 pmlol this was quite a laugh.
Please welcome Colin Daniels, otherwise known as P.R. Dogg…
as for “what is born”… jeez, i duno, a new era of online anxiety?
was bummed the audio message didn’t load – could have been a laugh…
8 Ross Feb 25th, 2007 at 10:50 pmThats incredible! personally would not have opened the audio file but hmmmm … would love to hear it. peace out P.R Dogg!
9 mistaken Jul 26th, 2007 at 11:59 pmHello, I’m using Windows Live Messenger – & was also hacked the same way in a conversation !
I don’t know how: since I don’t think that anyone could hav got my password. My pc is also quite secure and clean.